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After graduation from school, the German soprano, Elisabeth Scholl, studied with Prof. Eduard Wollitz in Mainz and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs and Richard Levitt. She attended master-classes with Ingrid Bjoner, Helmut Deutsch, Luisa Bosabalian, Ileana Cotrubas and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Elisabeth Scholl appears as soloist with René Jacobs, Philip Pickett, Marcus Creed, Konrad Junghänel, Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Mario Venzago, Rolf Beck, Michael Schneider, Sigiswald Kuijken, Knabenchor Hannover, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester among others.
Elisabeth Scholl has been invited by festivals such as the Tokyo Summer Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Göttingen Händel Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Festwochen Luzern, Händel Festival Karlsruhe, Festival Les jeudis d´été Colmar, Helsinki Festival, Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, Schleswig-Holstein Musik-Festival and the BBC Proms.
On the opera stage, Elisabeth Scholl performed the role of Fiordiligi and the Contessa at the Festwochen Herrenhausen in Hannover, Andreas Spering conducting. At the Schwetzingen Festival 2001, she sang the title role in Haydn´s L´anima del filosofo under Thomas Hengelbrock (directed by Achim Freyer).
In August 2001 Elisabeth Scholl appeared as Clarice in Haydn´s Il mondo della luna at the Festwochen der Alten Musik Innsbruck (conductor: René Jacobs, director: Karoline Gruber), and in October 2004 performed for the first time at the Essen opera house, singing Cajo in Vivaldi´s Ottone in villa.
Elisabeth Scholl is particularly interested in lied, and her first Lieder CD was released in October 1999, followed by a solo-CD with operatic scenes and arias of Reinhard Keiser in May 2001. Other CDs: Monteverdi: Il ritorno di Ulisse, René Jacobs, 1992, Harmonia Mundi France; Grandi: Geistliche Musik, René Jacobs, 1992, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi; Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (Cneo), Schein: Israelsbrünnlein, Philippe Herreweghe, 1995, Harmonia Mundi France; René Jacobs, 1995, Harmonia Mundi France; Bach: Magnificat (BWV 243), Philip Pickett 1995, Decca; Händel: Athalia (Athalia), Joachim Martini, 1996, Naxos; Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248), Sigiswald Kuijken, 1997, Sony Japan; Praetorius: Weihnachtsmusik, Philip Pickett, 1997, Decca; Schütz: Die Psalmen Davids, Konrad Junghänel, 1997, Harmonia Mundi France; Händel: Il Trionfo del Tempo (Piacere), Joachim Martini, 1998, Naxos; Händel: Deborah, Joachim Martini, 1999, Naxos. |
